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When in Long Island, Judd Gray, corset salesman, murdered Albert E. Snyder, 45, husband of Ruth Brown Snyder, 32, the Manhattan dailies were shocked beyond the drunkenest tabloid editor's most gaudy dream (TIME, April 4, 1927). The Manhattan public was somehow puzzled. How came a curly-haired, weak-mouthed little vendor of female garments, in the vegetable suburbs of a great city, to such a pitch of excitement that he could smash a man's skull with a sash-weight? The tabloids, who followed Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder until (and after) the current shot through them...
College students are no Aunt Prudences and at Harvard at least, there are few conscientious observers of the 18th Amendment, but the worst subway riot, the drunkenest football crowd are piddling trifles in the way of disturbances compared to a Legion Convention. Boston must have wanted the convention, or it would not have had it. Detroit has been awarded the convention for next year. By God, we hope she's satisfied...
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